As an 18-year-old, I dated a boy who lived at St Paul's College at the University of Sydney. There was a girl who attended neighbouring The Women's College - lets call her Freda - who was treated akin to the Puberty ...

What's the opposite of a predatory journal? A dismissive one? The Review of Higher Education (RHE) falls into the latter category. The top-in-field journal, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, recently suspended submissions after reporting a more than two-year backlog. While that's newsworthy ...

Graduates from the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne are among the most employable in the world. That’s according to the 2019 edition of the Graduate Employability Rankings, released by higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Ben Sowter, research director at ...

ACU has included a 'no added sugar' policy in its rule book, becoming the first Australian university to do so. After analysing vending machine offerings across its campuses and discovering that over half of beverages contained extra sweet stuff, they removed soft drinks, ...

A broadcaster, a student engineer and a future nurse are among the finalists for awards that celebrate international students’ contributions to society. Department of Industry director Peter Mackey said the annual NSW International Student Awards, managed by StudyNSW, reinforce the benefits ...

The NSW countryside is bone dry. Once verdant towns like Bowral in the Southern Highlands and Muswellbrook in the Hunter are now whitish-yellow – and classified as areas of 'intense drought'. Indeed, the whole state has been designated as 'in drought'. With ...

Have you noticed that students aren't that resilient? Eleven thousand global employers have. In the QS Global Skills Gap in the 21st Century Report, they reported a lack of resilience as the largest student skill gap, among many others. The report, ...

As previously prefaced, tough new standards are being introduced in NSW for teaching graduates, who will now need a credit average in their degree to be able to apply for a job in the state's public schools. Graduates will also ...

Healing wounds with glue, lighting a path for renewable energy and taking science to the small screen were among the award-winning moves recognised at this year's Eureka Prize. Presented annually, the Australian Museum’s awards recognise excellence in the fields of ...

The son of a former state Liberal MP (his mother) and a past party vice-president (his father), Dan Tehan has politics in his veins. His rapid ascent – from local federal MP in 2010 to government front bencher in 2016 – ...